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Lecture 1- Intro to SPM, Student Olivier de

comments Weck

List of questions and what was answered by the class:

1. Why is System Project Management hard?

- Interdisciplinary nature of systems (N. Svensson)


- Definition of the project often poor (ill-defined in
terms of specifications and functionality)
- underfunding (Sashi Somavarapu)
- Organizational factors: Managing of people of different
functions, with different objectives leads to people
pulling to different directions (M. Stevens)
- Compressed schedule - too little time to do things right
E.g. at Raytheon a "Spiral" product development process
leads to faster development, but higher extra effort,
difficult to plan for. (E. Butler)
- Because they are unpredictable (M. Usan from a very
fragmented audio line)

2. What is most difficult to track in a project?

- Keep track of the exact hours spent on a particular


project because many people work in a multi-project
environment (L. Curhan)
- Track progress: Almost impossible. Milestones are
poorly defined and whether they have been meet or
not is often subjective and can be "gamed" (E.Butler)
- Time left to complete the tasks (reverse view from the
endpoint of the project) (Mike Nolan)

3. What do you do if progress is slow and a project


starts to go awry?

- Prioritize (Don't know the name of this student, sorry)


- Have people work overtime or bring in more resources
(Frank Lanni)
- As above and talk to management (W. Shen)

4. Why are task dependencies showing higher up in the


triangular upper right of the DSM more difficult to
handle?

- Because they have the biggest iterative loops (how


many steps you have to go back) (Prithvi)

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